Role Filing Pattern
Postdoctoral Fellow appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 865 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Postdoctoral Fellow H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1023.00
SOC Category: Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Postdoctoral Fellow (SOC 19-1023.00, Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 865 filing records. Filed base wages span $55,224 to $76,500 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $70,000. These are filed LCA records for this role, not visa approvals, hires, or open roles, and the figures generally exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Median Salary
$70,000
H-1B LCA Filings
865LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$76,500
LCA filings are not visa approvals or open roles — see why this matters
Public filing data is normalized for browsing. LCA filings are not visa approvals or job openings, PERM filings are not individual green-card success rates, and salary figures generally use the lower bound of filed wage ranges and exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Employer Concentration
The strongest employer filing concentration for this role comes from Emory University, Harvard University, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and The Curators of the University of Missouri. Use this as a filing-volume signal, not as a guarantee of current hiring or petition outcomes.
Location Pattern
Filed worksites for this role are concentrated in places such as Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Baltimore, MD, and Indianapolis, IN. City-level wage differences can reflect seniority, worksite rules, employer mix, and local labor market differences.
Salary Caveat
The median shown here is a filed base wage signal from public LCA records. It generally excludes equity, bonus, benefits, and compensation changes after filing.
Salary Distribution (Base)
LCA filingsQuartile breakdown of filed annual base wages.
Min$55,224
P25$59,592
Median$70,000
P75$71,885
Max$76,500
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- Emory University$64,29661
- Harvard University$73,63250
- 47
- 46
- 45
- 43
- Johns Hopkins University$72,24642
- 39
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- 27
- 24
- 21
- 19
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Filed Wage by City
- New York, NY$80,16582
- La Jolla, CA$76,00021
- Cold Spring Harbor, NY$74,30017
- Bronx, NY$74,26325
- Cambridge, MA$74,05744
- Baltimore, MD$72,24658
- Houston, TX$70,00069
- New Orleans, LA$70,00019
- Fort Collins, CO$66,15015
- Austin, TX$64,80338
- Atlanta, GA$64,35695
- Indianapolis, IN$62,22652
- Augusta, GA$60,00018
- Columbia, MO$57,71044
- Auburn, ALN/A19
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Postdoctoral Fellow?
The median filed base salary for Postdoctoral Fellow H-1B LCA records is $70,000 per year.
How many Postdoctoral Fellow H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 865 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Postdoctoral Fellow role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Postdoctoral Fellow?
Top employers filing LCAs for Postdoctoral Fellow include: Emory University, Harvard University, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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